Public Service Commissioner, Foster Campbell, isn’t immediately ready to hand the Democratic Presidential nomination to President Biden’s choice, Vice President Kamala Harris. Colleen Crain has the story.
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The Louisiana Legislature has hired Boston Consulting Group to perform a comprehensive assessment of the Louisiana Department of Transportation. Earlier this year, Governor Landry issued an executive order mandating the optimization of DOTD’s operations.

A driver heading the wrong way on U-S 61 in St. Rose near I-310 resulted in a head-on crash that killed four people, including two children, eight-year-old Benjamin Alexis the Third and five-year-old Charles Alexis of Chalmette. State Police Trooper Jacob Pucheu says the children were wearing seatbelts, but they should have been in a booster seat…
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The fatal wreck happened yesterday morning before six AM. Impairment on behalf of both drivers is unknown at this time.

Former nursing home owner Bob Dean has avoided jail time after pleading no contest to 15 counts related to his failed evacuation plan of nursing home residents to a warehouse in Tangipahoa Parish during Hurricane Ida in 2021. Dean was sentenced to three years probation, Attorney General Liz Murrill expressed disappointment Dean was not sent to prison for several years. Legal analyst Franz Borghardt says Dean did not show criminal intent, even though several elderly people died as a result of his plan…
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